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Freeleo1

02/20/2023 10:55PM

We were fishing on Ashigan in July and I got a fish up by the boat before ot got off. It was a vivid green with black verticle stripes and bright red near its mouth. I thought it was a bass due to it's shape, but I've never seen one so highly colored. I have tried googling it, but no images have matched it. It was probably about a 1 lb fish if I had to guess and about as long as it was tall although it's hard to tell since I only saw it for an instant. It was like seeing a fish in a dream. Does it sound familiar to anyone?

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." Terry Pratchett

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Hammertime

02/20/2023 11:53PM

Sounds like a green sunfish to me.

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WhiteWolf

02/21/2023 03:08AM

Or a perch.

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Speckled

02/21/2023 10:00AM

Hammertime: "Sounds like a green sunfish to me."

"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again" - W

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Aries

02/21/2023 12:41PM

It could have been a hybrid Sunfish. Besides the fish already mentioned try to Google Bluegill Sunfish or Hybrid Sunfish and look at those pics and see if you find a match.

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Pinetree

02/21/2023 09:50PM

Aries: "It could have been a hybrid Sunfish. Besides the fish already mentioned try to Google Bluegill Sunfish or Hybrid Sunfish and look at those pics and see if you find a match."

Yes maybe a bluegill and green sunfish cross.

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